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UGA students attacked in downtown Athens

updated Friday, October 12, 2012 - 10:12am

Two University of Georgia students were attacked early Thursday during an attempted robbery on College Avenue, Athens-Clarke police said.

They told police they were walking toward their home on Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway at about 2:30 a.m. when they encountered three men, one who yelled out to them.

The students said they ignored the men and kept walking. The one who yelled then ran up and struck one of the students in the head with a board, according to police.

That student ran until his attacker stopped chasing him. When he looked back, he saw his friend being attacked by the other two men, police said. While beating him, police said the men tore the student’s pants pocket while trying to steal a wallet and cellphone.

Their roommate drove the 21-year-old students to the hospital, where one of them was treated for a cut over his eye, police said.

Neither victim was able to give police good descriptions of their assailants.

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